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Sep 5, 2023 · Patrick Elliott-Walker. | Certified Educator. Last Updated September 5, 2023. This short story by Twain presents his primarily American readership with a sense of what virtues should define them as...
Mark Twain's short story The Million Pound Bank Note is a socioeconomic commentary published in 1893, toward the end of the famed humorist's career. Explore the characters and plot of the...
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Plot. Henry Adams, a clerk in a San Francisco stockbroker's office, is swept out to sea while sailing one weekend. He is rescued by a ship bound for London and must work during the voyage to earn his passage, and he arrives in the city with his clothing in rags and only one dollar in his pocket.